Involvement In Our Work
We believe theatre is something you do with people, not to them. Just as we want more for our audiences than to passively sit in the dark and watch, we want to extend the invitation by offering people the chance to be part of our work. Over the years we have developed the way we make our work, with community involvement now being integral to how we create.
Our first work, THE ERPINGHAM CAMP, included a local cast who took part in a workshop programme to learn performance skills, creating a Community Ensemble of Red Coats in the holiday camp and rehearsing with the full cast on Brighton Pier. In the THE NEW WORLD ORDER, the community ensemble took on more menacing roles, enabling audiences to feel they were trapped within a police state, and, in OPERATION BLACK ANTLER, the community ensemble was taken to a new level, each member devising their own complex characters, co-developing their performances with the cast and directors and then improvising responses as audiences became undercover police for the evening.
Our recent work, BEFORE THE FLAME GOES OUT, explored how Hydrocracker can partner with communities to make digital work, pairing participant voices and professional filmmakers to respond to an unprecedented moment in time. Our new project WHO CARES? continues this, with our Ensemble developing ideas and web-based content for the immersive experience.
“I wouldn’t have thought about making a video as part of a film. It was challenging.. but worth it.”
- Ricky, Brighton participant of BEFORE THE FLAME GOES OUT
Interested in getting involved?
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